Hello ANN Journalism Education participant and welcome back. The following audio material is for your note guide as you move forward in building your craft as a news journalists. So jot away on your notes at your own pace, and pause or re-listen as you wish, to help you pen down the basics, and be sure to LABEL THE LESSON “5 W’s 1H” PART I, PART II and PART III. Just a reminder, PLEASE LISTEN to the audio or listen… [READ MORE].
Larry Freeman
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Howdy, and welcome back; What’s up? Yep, that’s right “WHAT” is up for more about the WHAT business, with a warning to the wise: AVOID GENERIC WHAT’S In other words, when is a what is not a what ? or what I like to call NON-WHATS Time and time again, especially students or even some adult print news journalists will plug in ‘generic’ whats — aka: NON WHATS Here are a few samples to clarify: A the School Board held… [READ MORE].
GUIDE FOR TAKING A PRESS RELEASE OR OTHER BASIC PR STYLE WRITEUP AND TURNING IT INTO A STORY. How to take a press release or other form of developed story idea and build a deeper, richer new/feature story around it. A. THE PRESS RELEASE This provides the meat and bones for a story that needs interviews, context, more depth and color while embracing various human interest angles associated with the sinews of the basic story. —————- Date: July 11, 2022… [READ MORE].
CAPTURE THE MOMENT Timing is everything. Keep your eye(s) on the action if you are not shooting a still shot. Anticipate as best you can. Sometimes you can track what is in frame in the viewfinder or on screen with one eye and use your other eye to watch the full external environment with the other. When the moment comes into play (the ball off the bat, the apogee of the slam dunk, the slide into home etc. have your… [READ MORE].
Alameda High School Junior, Hannah Boles, had no idea she was about to engage in her second stray dog rescue when she spied a white and tan Pit Bull mix wandering aimlessly down Fernside Boulevard in Alameda on Sunday April 12th. This time it would require uncommon patience on the part of this 16 year old, the kind of staying and caring power not always a part of her age group, or even those way past it. She asked her sister,… [READ MORE].
PHOTO BRIEF KEY INGREDIENTS: A solid Photobrief (combination of a short news story/ news brief combined with a photo that is central to the essence of the story, not merely complementary; you may also add one or two more to the photo element of a photobrief) A) A PHOTO HEADLINE/DESCRIPTOR B) A PERSPECTIVE “HOOK” OR OVERVIEW (Sentence One) C) A NEWS ELEMENT, with lookback to last year for context (Sent. Two) D) A DESCRITPION/SPECIFICATION OF WHAT THE PHOTO IS (… [READ MORE].
How to identify How to convince When to Preservation of (the rolodex) ===================== TACTICS FOR PREPARING SOURCE INTERVIEW (go to how not to get played) TYPES AND PURPOSES OF QUESTIONS Closed vs. open ended Loaded vs unloaded Statement based STRATEGIC SEQUENCING OF QUESTIONS HOW TO BUILD MORE PROBATIVE RATHER THAN SUPERFICIAL QUESTIONS. IT ALL STARTS WITH DO YOUR HOMEWORK = PRINCIPLE 4 SO THAT YOU ARE NOT JUST USING A KEY SOURCE TO ESTABLISH BASIC BEDROCK KNOWLEDGE, BUT RATHER TO… [READ MORE].
STORIES ARE ALL AROUND, OFTEN RIGHT BEFORE OUR VERY EYES. This lesson is based on two principles: 1) A lot of Journalism begins “in the mind” or, put differently, in the eye of the beholder, in this case yours as a reporter and/or photojournalist. How you think about an object, situation or event can often be the basis for a good story. It’s all in how you think about it. 2) Things or people in plain view and which, at… [READ MORE].
As Alamedans cast their votes amid a national dialogue over “defunding” of police, they will not find the issue directly on the ballot, even as official city studies on the matter are underway. They will however, cast votes for two open seats on The Alameda City Council, with incumbents and candidates alike holding varied, sometimes equivocal, sometimes polar opposite views on the matter. Four incumbent members of the Council and two of the three candidates, Gig Codiga, and Trish… [READ MORE].
Legendary Grateful Dead bassist, Phil Lesh got one more reminder of what a long strange trip it’s been just before a special 78th birthday concert at Portchester New York’s Capitol Theatre featuring Lesh, the Terrapin Family Band, Steve Winwood of Traffic and other famed rock bands on March 19 of this year. Fire Captain Larry Miano of the “Harry Howard Hook and Ladder Fire company #1” in Port Chester wracked his brains last January for something special to give Lesh… [READ MORE].